Duane 'Dog' Chapman to Be Extradited to Face Charges in Mexico

Fox News ^ | 2/17/2007

[Abby4116]

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — A federal court has cleared the way for TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman to be extradited to face charges in Mexico, court officials said.

Norma Jara, a spokeswoman for the second district court in Guadalajara, said the court rejected Chapman's injunction request, ruling there was no reason not to try him with the charge of deprivation of liberty of Mexico.

"We only just heard about the Mexican court's decision to continue with the extradition proceedings, and are still in shock," Chapman and his wife, Beth, said in a statement issued Thursday night in Honolulu.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Bingo! Mexico is keeping cop-killers. They keep thousands of killers. Chapman captured a killer in Mexico. That's his crime, capturing a fugitive, when obviously, fugitives CAN'T be captured, because they're everywhere.

[highball]

Not aimed at you highball. I'm just disgusted with our system of handling illegals and the double standard involved.

Oh, I understand.

I believe in raising standards across the board, though. Not lowering them.

[Joe Boucher]

You know they have to have something cause since he became president he has kissed Mexican butt regularly.
Makes me sick.

[Revolting cat!]

Dog oughta run, then hire himself out as a bounty hunter and collect the fee for catching Dog!

[Dante3]

Good idea. But first we have to get those who want us to become part of Mexico out of office.

[JimRed]

Time to declare war on Mexico.

I think building THE WALL would do just as well.

[usurper]

Also, whoever Luster was paying off down there lost a large sum of money when he was returned to the USA.

Exactamente, if you are a fugitive on the run in Mexico you are protected as long as you make regular payments. Miss a payment and they turn you over to the US. Run out of money and they turn you over. This cash cow had several years of payments to make before being turned over and the Government wants to take it out of Dog’s A**.

[Dante3]

Not only do the Mexican illegal aliens break our laws every day and are given a pass, they also receive special perks not available to the rest of us - reduced college tuition, choice of public schools, free medical care, translators, etc.

[Grizzled Bear]

That having been said, you can't go to another country, break its laws and expect to get off scot free.
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Unless you are entering the U.S. illegally. Not intended to be a thread hijack but the drug smuggler entered our country, broke laws, got off scot free and may have even get a multimillion dollar settlement from our government.

[Unicorn]

BTTT

[CodeToad]

It doesn't pay to be an American citizen anymore.

[firewalk]

I find it appalling

I agree with you

[Dante3]

Illegal aliens get more perks, are even allowed to break scores of our laws.

[1rudeboy]

They never cooperate with our courts.

They certainly haven't. For at least a month.

[FightThePower!]

I can definitely say that I no longer support Bush as President. I voted for him twice, but this is the last straw.

1. He has broken his oath of office by failing to protect this country by the complete failure secure our borders with Mexico.

2. His half a$$ed handling of Iraq. Specifically, trying to make friends with our enemy's before pacifying the enemy.

3. Letting an American hero who risked his life to catch a serial rapist be thrown to the wolves in Mexico.

Go ahead and flame away Bush bots.

[Joe Boucher]

I can add some things to go along with your disappointments in him.
Failure to persue illegalities by the Clintons.
Failure to hold to task liberals and dems who skew America.
Failure to hold down spending.

[Shuttle Shucker]

Also at:

http://www.mexiconews.com.mx/23427.html

Is it not obvious that Mexican authorities fear repeats of Operation Casablanca, in which the FBI tricked Mexican money launderers, I mean banking officials, to accept "free vacations" in Las Vegas, only to apprehend them once they arrived? The pretty monopolized television media had a field day arousing nationalistic sentiments in support of the money launderers.

Anyhow, there's a lot of money in the drug trade, and it's not in some folks' best interest to disrupt that by letting folks like Dog Chapman get away with this kinda stuff down in Mexico.

[Boxsford]

There was a million bucks riding on that catch. He spent a lot of money trying to get Luster and then ended up not being able to collect.

Everything aside, what Dog did was good for everyone. He helped protect Mexican women from a serial rapist and brought justice (not to mention peace of mind) to the American women Luster raped and beat.

I've a gut feeling this is about money and not so much about any laws broken. I don't have a lot of confidence in Mexico being honorable about their laws being broken. Maybe I'm sterotyping.

[discostu]

Might have been good for everyone but it wasn't smart. Filming yourself committing a crime (bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico) then turning that film into a TV show is a short path to nothing good.

American bounty hunters have done time in Mexico before, and Canada too, as far as they're concerned it's kidnapping. That doesn't mean this situation is a straight law and order thing, but it does mean there's a perfectly good legitimate reason for them to want to put Dog away. He did break their laws, and he did turn himself into a TV star with the footage from breaking their law. I hope Dog finds a loophole, or at least that his fears of what will happen to him in Mexican prison are wrong, but he did make this bed.

[Boxsford]

I agree he made his own bed. He believed his lawyers when they told him Mexico wouldn't come after him. That wouldn't have been good enough for me. I'd have wanted to resolve it legally instead of being content with jumping bail.
Still, I'm glad Luster is behind bars. I'm glad Dog did what he did. He and his wife are quite entertaining. Wish they'd be more careful about exposing those small children on the show. Not sure if they are their children or grandchildren.